For the first time this season, I’ll be hosting a LoHud Wrestling CoverItLive chat on Wednesday night at 7:30. The plan is to do this a few times in the next few weeks, which is why I wanted to give everyone a heads up. The more active people we have… Read More →

Here is a press release from Frank Vulcano: Pittsburgh—The Wrestling Classic committee selected the USA All-Star Team for the Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic, the most prestigious high school all-star wrestling meet in the United States. The Wrestling Classic will be on Sunday, March 25, 2012, at the University of Pittsburgh’s… Read More →

Now that the annual Rockland County Championships and Super 16 tournaments have come and gone, all of Section 1’s focus has shifted to divisionals this upcoming weekend. As the week goes on, I’ll have information on the four different locations and what to look for at each. In case you… Read More →

North Rockland’s Matt Caputo, top, pinned Clarkstown South’s Austin Fox in the 126-pound final at the Rockland County wrestling championships at Tappan Zee High School. See more photos of the Rockland County wrestling championships

To get everyone ready for the Super 16 and Rockland County Championship tournaments this weekend, I’ve gone through the seeds for each and come up with some predictions. There are some strong wrestlers in the 3-6 range at the Super 16, which could lead to some upsets, but the RCC… Read More →

I’ll have seeds for the Super 16 and Rockland County Championships posted soon. For now, here are the results from tonight. Most notably, Arlington handed Brewster it’s second loss of the season to a Section 1 opponent to capture a league title. I’ve bolded and italicized all matches involving two… Read More →

This week’s notebook focused on Brewster seniors Mike Parise and Jimmy Duncan, who are pretty much neck and neck on the Bears’ all-time wins list. Duncan broke the record late last season, but Parise recently passed him at the Shenendehowa tounrnament (Parise currently has 159 wins, and Duncan has 157).... Read More →

At long last, I’ve finalized our complete LoHud weight class rankings for both Division 1 and Division 2. With the Super 16 and Rockland County Championships set for this weekend, followed by sectional qualifiers the following weekend, these rankings should serve as a great reference for sectionals. The idea is… Read More →

Sorry for the delay on these, but apparently there were some major computer issues at Edgemont on Sunday which forced them to take everything by hand. (It’s funny to think that that’s how it always had to be done.) I just received these official results from Panthers coach Pete Jacobson… Read More →

There’s a pretty light schedule on tap for Tuesday, but I also wanted to update you guys on the status of my new weight class rankings. They’re basically done, I just have to make a few adjustments based on the happenings from this weekend. They’re pretty extensive, and should be… Read More →

There were several matches the Kohl Invitational at Suffern on Sunday which had major implications on individual section title races, and none more so than the 285-pound final between Yorktown’s David Varian and Hen Hud’s Sean Barry. Coming into the match, Barry had yet to lose this season, and was… Read More →

We’re just about to get the Kohl Invitational finals started at Suffern HS. I’ll be matside taking some videos, so follow me on Twitter @vzmercogliano for updates. Here are the results from the semifinals: 99 – Vinny Vespa (Monroe-Woodbury) pin Jarod Sauschuck (Port Jervis), :30; Doug Iadanza (Sachem East) dec…. Read More →

While all four local tournaments that were scheduled for today have been pushed back to Sunday, the Beacon tournament got underway on Friday with no delays. I’m waiting to receive word on whether or not they’re postponing today’s action, but here’s a look at what went down on the first… Read More →

Due to the anticipated inclement weather on Saturday, we have some postponements for a few of this weekend’s tournaments. So far, I’ve received confirmation that both the Kohl Invitational tournament at Suffern and the 30th annual Edgemont tournament have each been moved from Saturday to Sunday. Wrestling should begin around… Read More →

Hen Hud senior Phil Siegel tied Sean Brophy’s school career wins record of 116 on Thursday in a 58-20 win over Lakeland. He’ll attempt to break the record at the Kohl Invitational at Suffern HS on Saturday. There were quite a few notable matches that stood out to me, as… Read More →

In light of last weekend’s Eastern States Classic and the work that I’ve been doing to update my weight class rankings, this week’s notebook focused on the implications of certain wrestler’s performances at Eastern States on individual section title races. We have a pretty clear picture of who the favorites… Read More →

Sorry for the delay on these results. We had some sort of nearly 24 hour blog outage on all of our LoHud blogs, but the issue has now been resolved. There were only two results that we received from Wednesday, but one was especially significant. Congrats to Hackley coach Fran… Read More →

Mahopac’s 48-34 win over Yorktown on Tuesday served as yet another reminder of the positive direction that the program is moving under new coach Dennis DiSanto. The win marked the Indians’ 12th in a row, and came against an opponent who I thought matched up very evenly with them. It’s… Read More →